Paulus se Eerste Briewe: Galasiërs - Free Bible Commentary

Dit is so moeilik om die balans te handhaaf tussen die logiese proses en die geestelike leierskap van die Heilige Gees.
Die volgende aanhalings help my hiermee:
(1) uit James W. Sire, Scripture Twisting, bl. 17-18:
“The illumination comes to the minds of God’s people – not just to the spiritual elite. There is no guru class
in biblical Christianity, no illuminati, no people through whom all proper interpretation must come. And so, while
the Holy Spirit gives special gifts of wisdom, knowledge and spiritual discernment, He does not assign these
gifted Christians to be the only authoritative interpreters of His Word. It is up to each of His people to learn, to
judge and to discern by reference to the Bible which stands as the authority even to those to whom God has given
special abilities. To summarize, the assumption I am making throughout the entire book is that the Bible is God’s
true revelation to all humanity, that it is our ultimate authority on all matters about which it peaks, that it is not a
total mystery but can be adequately understood by ordinary people in every culture.”
(2) oor Kierkegaard, uit Bernard Ramm, Protestant Biblical Interpretation, bl. 75:
“According to Kierkegaard the grammatical, lexical, and historical study of the Bible was necessary but
preliminary to the true reading of the Bible. To read the Bible as God’s word one must read it with his heart in his
mouth, on tip-toe, with eager expectancy, in conversation with God. To read the Bible thoughtlessly or carelessly
or academically or professionally is not to read the Bible as God’s Word. As one reads it as a love letter is read,
then one reads it as the Word of God.”
(3) H.H. Rowley in The Relevance of the Bible, bl. 19:
“No merely intellectual understanding of the Bible, however complete, can possess all its treasures. It does
not despise such understanding of the spiritual treasures of this book if it is to be complete. And for that spiritual
understanding something more than intellectual alertness is necessary. Spiritual things are spiritually discerned,
and the Bible student needs an attitude of spiritual receptivity, an eagerness to find God that he may yield himself
to Him, if he is to pass beyond his scientific study unto the richer inheritance of this greatest of all books.”
VI. Hierdie Kommentaar se Metode
Die Studiegids-Kommentaar is ontwerp om jou te help met die interpretasie-prosedure op die volgende maniere:
(1) ‘n Kort historiese uiteensetting as bekendstelling van elke boek. Gaan hierdie inligting na nadat jy leessiklus #3
voltooi het.
(2) Die verskillende dele van die literêre eenheid word in konteks geplaas aan die begin van elke hoofstuk om jou te
wys hoe dit gestruktureer is.
(3) Aan die begin van elke hoofstuk of groot literêre eenheid word die paragraafindeling saam met hulle
beskrywende onderskrifte verskaf. Dit word uit die volgende moderne vertalings geneem:
(a) The New American Standard Bible, 1995 weergawe (NASB)
(b) The New King James Version (NKJV)
(c) The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
(d) Today’s English Version (TEV)
(e) The New Jerusalem Bible (NJB)
(f) Die Nuwe Afrikaanse Vertaling (NAV)
Paragrafering is nie geïnspireer nie. Dit moet uit die konteks afgelei word. Deur ‘n vergelyking van ‘n aantal moderne
vertalings vanuit verskillende vertaling-denkskole en teologiese perspektiewe, word dit vir ons moontlik om die
veronderstelde struktuur van die skrywer se gedagtes te analiseer. Elke paragraaf het een hoofwaarheid. Dit word
gewoonlik die “tema-sin” of “sentrale idee van die teks” genoem. Hierdie eenheidsvormende gedagte is die sleutel tot
gepaste historiese, grammatiese interpretasie. Ons moet nooit interpreteer, preek of onderrig oor minder as ‘n paragraaf
nie! Onthou ook dat elke paragraaf verwant is aan die omliggende paragrawe. Dit is hoekom ‘n paragraaf-vlak raamwerk
van die hele boek so belangrik is. Dit moet vir ons moontlik wees om die logiese vloei van die onderwerp te volg volgens
die bedoeling van die oorspronklike outeur.
(4) Bob se notas volg ‘n vers-vir-vers benadering tot interpretasie. Dit dwing ons om die oorspronklike outeur se
gedagtegang te volg. Die notas bied inligting oor ‘n verskeidenheid aspekte:
(a) literêre konteks
(b) historiese, kulturele insigte
(c) grammatiese inligting
(d) woord-ontleding
(e) relevante parallelismes
(5) Soms word die gedrukte teks in die kommentaar uit The New American Standard Version (1995 weergawe)
afgewissel met die vertalings van verskeie ander moderne weergawes:
(a) The New King James Version (NKJV) is ‘n woord-vir-woord letterlike vertaling gebaseer op die Griekse
manuskrip-tradisie bekend as die Textus Receptus.
(b) The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) is ‘n gewysigde woord-vir-woord vertaling van die National
Council of Churches se Revised Standard Version.
(c) The Today’s English Version (TEV) is ‘n dinamiese eweknie-vertaling wat deur die United Bible Society
gepubliseer is.
(d) The Jerusalem Bible (JB) is nog ‘n dinamiese eweknie-vertaling gebaseer op ‘n Franse Katolieke vertaling.
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